D&D 5E (2024) What could One D&D do to bring the game back to the dungeon?

[Reynard]

Kind of too late for that.

How so? OneD&D isn't out yet.

And does requiring people to carry torches that much of a challenge?

Tracking resources, including light resources, is a very important part of the dungeon challenge.

 

[Reynard]

Matt Colville had a video about this I seem to recall. He talked about the item list in the PHB and how it is only there now for us to fondly recall the items and then nobody uses them. He talks about 1e and being fragile. Using your 10ft pole to prod through dungeons above and below for traps- hoping to get enough coin to be able to buy a hooded lantern. Then you would not need to count your torches. Counting arrows meant something since you engaged in melee meant you could die. The game was set up around the crawl and this mundane record keeping.

That is a great video.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Making the dungeon a place players want to go instead of just a pain like everyone trying to lure us into the dungeon want it to be?

 

[Reynard]

Making the dungeon a place players want to go instead of just a pain like everyone trying to lure us into the dungeon want it to be?

We get it: you hate dungeons. Why are you in this thread?

 

[mellored]

How so? OneD&D isn't out yet.

It's backwards compatible.

 

[Vaalingrade]

We get it: you hate dungeons. Why are you in this thread?

You literally asked!

 

[Reynard]

It's backwards compatible.

Well, no one can be sure yet what that means, but I don't think it means they can't change any races because, well, we already know they are planning that.

 

[Reynard]

You literally asked!

That isn't an invitation to threadcrap.

 

[payn]

I put the onus on adventure writing and not the system. I mean, I'm not saying the system has nothing to do with exploration, but I don't think 5E needs changes here. Dungeon crawling is often boring because there is little point beyond kill things and take their stuff. What is the history of the place? What secrets does it hold? Make it interesting to explore and not just a pit to sink resources into again again.

So, probably more stuff in the DMG for GMs to build their own interesting dungeons. Perhaps even a DMG II that focuses on campaign building with a dedicated section on dungeon crawling. Also, adventures that are good, which often WotC ones are not (IMO of course).

 

[Vaalingrade]

That isn't an invitation to threadcrap.

It's not threadcrapping. That's how you get people back into the dungeon: rethinking what the dungeons should be in the modern era.